What is not yours is not yours
Subtitle: stories
By: Helen Oyeyemi
Contributors: Oyeyemi, Helen
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9781594634635
Subjects: Short stories
Work titles: Short stories
Description: The stories collected here are linked by more than the exquisitely winding prose of their creator: Helen Oyeyemi's ensemble cast of characters slip from the pages of their own stories only to surface in another. The reader is invited into a world of lost libraries and locked gardens, of marshlands where the drowned dead live and a city where all the clocks have stopped; students hone their skills at puppet school, the Homely Wench Society commits a guerrilla book-swap, and lovers exchange books and roses on St Jordi's Day. It is a collection of towering imagination, marked by baroque beauty and a deep sensuousness.
Table of contents: title: Books and roses --; title: "Sorry" doesn't sweeten her tea --; title: Is your blood as red as this? --; title: Drownings --; title: Presence --; title: A brief history of the homely wench society --; title: Dornicka and the St. Martin's Day goose --; title: Freddy Barrandov checks...in? --; title: If a book is locked there is probably a good reason for that don't you think.